actually, anyone have a good way to start drawing? Any things that helped you start out, things I can look into?
I find that the times when my drawing improves most are, simply, the times when I *draw* most. It's something you just gotta do over and over and over.
Although I do suggest looking at tutorials, especially from artists you like. And a decent art book is not a bad idea, there are a lot out there, even some focused specifically on fandom-type stuff. (I actually got a ton of useful things out of "Drawing Comics the Marvel Way" even though I don't do Marvel style, so any book can be good, even if it's not the style you're after.) Anything that talks about anatomy is good too, too many people concentrate on having awesome color or great fur texture or whatever but are putting on this polish on crappy anatomy, and their art is never as good looking as the art of somebody with a solid anatomical foundation. You need to know how big and how small things are and how they move and all that.
Also draw from lots of different sources. It's okay to reference (but not trace!) other people's art, but you also learn a lot from drawing things from life, or from photos. If there's any way for you to take a life drawing class, do it. That's pretty much the only art class I ever took where I actually LEARNED something useful, the rest were mostly rubbish.
Mostly though I think the thing to do (and which I do not do nearly enough of) is just practice, practice, practice, and try to improve something or other every time you sit down to draw.
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